Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Absurdity and Impunity Reign in the Time of Don and Rahm
Counterpunch, 10/5/2018 Absurdity Reigns in the terrible time of Donald Trump. Just five days apart, the tangerine miscreation went from calling the right-wing Supreme Court appointee Brett Kavanaugh’s primary accuser, Dr. Christine Blassey Ford, a [...]
Chicago Could Blow if Laquan McDonald’s Killer Walks
Truthdig, 10/5/2018 Truthdig update: A Chicago jury on Friday found Police Officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting of Laquan McDonald. My earliest memories of growing up in Chicago are steeped in racial [...]
The Establishment’s ‘Fear’ Is Different From Yours
Truthdig, 9/24/2018 The instantly famous Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed (ATOE), published Sept. 5, in which a senior Trump administration official complained about the brutish awfulness and incompetence of Donald Trump and claimed to be working with [...]
Laquan McDonald is Being Tried for His Own Racist Murder
Counterpunch, 9/21/2018 As the brilliant left cultural theorist and social critic Henry Giroux noted more than a decade ago, the dominant neoliberal ideology “collapses” the nation’s “pervasive racial hierarchies…into power-evasive strategies such as blaming minorities [...]